An Account of the taking of the island of Martinego, in the West-Indies, from the French by the English forces and fleet, commanded by Sir Francis Wheeler also of the taking of two French ships, one of 22 guns, the other of 20 guns, belonging to Martinego and Guardialoope : in a letter to a merchant in London. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A26071 of text R3914 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing A404). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A26071 Wing A404 ESTC R3914 11791700 ocm 11791700 49227 2264187132

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A26071) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 49227) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 3:30) An Account of the taking of the island of Martinego, in the West-Indies, from the French by the English forces and fleet, commanded by Sir Francis Wheeler also of the taking of two French ships, one of 22 guns, the other of 20 guns, belonging to Martinego and Guardialoope : in a letter to a merchant in London. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed by W. Bonny, London : 1693. "Published by authority" At head of letter: Plymouth, June the 4th, 1693. eng Wheeler, Francis, -- Sir, 1656?-1694. Martinique -- History -- 17th century. Great Britain -- History, Naval -- Stuarts, 1603-1714. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. eebo An account of the taking of the island of Martinego, in the West-Indies, from the French: by the English forces and fleet, commanded by Sir Francis Wh [no entry] 1693 1 414 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2008-06 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2009-01 Sampled and proofread 2009-01 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
AN ACCOUNT Of the Taking the Island of Martinego , In the WEST-INDIES , from the French : By the English Forces and Fleet , commanded by Sir Francis Wheeler : Also of the Taking of Two French Ships , one of 22 Guns , the other of 20 Guns , belonging to Martinego , and Guardialoope . In a Letter to a Merchant in London . Published by Authority . SIR , Plymouth , June the 4th . 1693.

YEsterday came into this Sound a Dutch Privateer , called the Hannibal of Middleborough , Capt. Kerman , Commander , carrying Thirty Guns ; she brought in with her two French Prizes ; one called the Two Brothers , of 22 Guns , 350 Tuns , and 35 Men , who came from the Island of Martinego ; the other the Hope , of 20 Guns , and 250 Tuns , who came in from Gardialoope . The Captain of the Two Brothers give an Account , That the English Fleet , under the Command of Sir Francis Wheeler , consisting of 60 Sail , with the Forces on Board , came before the Island of Martinego ; on the 11th . of April , New-Stile ; that on the 14th . they all Landed at St. Lucia-side : They found little or no Opposition at their Landing , but immediately fell to Plundering the Island ; that the French Governour had Notice of their coming Three Days before their Arrival , upon which he had ordered all the old Men , with the Women and Children , immediately to repair to the Mountains ; that there lay under the Castle of Martinego Two French Frigats , ready to take in all Persons that are willing to go on Board .

The Merchants on Board the Hope Prize declare , That when they left Guardialoope , the People were so dispirited there , upon the News they had of the Arrival of the English Forces at Martinego ; that he was sure they would Surrender the Place on the first Approach of the English , the chief Planters having already left the Place , they having 60 of the Inhabitants on Board them , who are all here ; that they verily believed , that not only the Town or Island , but likewise the Castle were in the Hands of the English .

London , Printed by W. Bonny , 1693.